I recently had it pointed out to me that I should do an #introductions post! So hi! I'm a clown, stiltwalker, juggler, musician, starting to work on some acrobatics, and I work for a #circus (circusfreaks.org) I have a BA in German, and am hoping to start practicing speaking with people more often in German. I was invited to come and try out Mastadon by @RussSharek@mastodon.cloud and have been enjoying it thus far.

It's intimidating when you're walking in the door surrounded by 5 year olds that play better than you, but go for it anyway. There are plenty of adults in your footsteps, beginner and non-beginners. You're not too old for new tricks and muscle memory!!!

"As an artist that stores their art on twitter and a lot of art related sites. This troubles me deeply. Imagine if Twitter or even Youtube did this. Every video gone forever."

And just holy yikes, y'all. This gave me palpitations.

Please don't think of uploading/sharing stuff as "storing" it on any of these sites--twitter/tumblr/etc. There's no good retrieval process, you don't control compression, etc. It's nice to access stuff one's shared for resharing but not storage.

I hate that I have to use amazon for all of these services. I wish there were a distributed AWS, where I could host my static content in the server node at my local library, and have it distributed via a federated CDN run by other volunteer sites.

The hen had few desires; to grow fat on grubs and grains, to keep eggs warm and to soar through the clouds.She excelled at the first two, but her flying efforts, though determined, were limited. Still,she managed to reach many of the highest treetops and rocky outcrops, further than the rest of the flock.

During her highest flight, she found a cliffside cave with a nest cradling two cooling eggs. Without hesitation she began to brood.

With the news of myspace deleting all their music uploads, I am reminded of every local band from my home town who's music was only ever *available* via myspace.

For a five or six year stretch, that was it. You made some music and you put it on myspace and that was enough.

There were still artists who's myspace I would visit occasionally specifically so that I could hear those tunes. (and yeah, I figured out how to get them from myspace. I have copies of some stuff. But not all of it.)

Around 40% of gratis Androids apps report on the user's actions to Facebook.

Often they send the machine's "advertising ID", so that Facebook can correlate the data it obtains from the same machine via various apps. Some of them send Facebook detailed information about the user's activities in the app; others only say that the user is using that app, but that alone is often quite informative.

This spying occurs regardless of whether the user has a Facebook account.